Monday, April 13, 2009

Prescott: 'Draper must go'

Via Labour Home.
"I am very disappointed by this turn of events. I've always believed as a Labour activist that we should campaign on the issues and the politics. But smear campaigns - be they in the newspapers or on the internet - are fundamentally wrong and only help to poison the political debate.

"I understand one man has left his job at No10 - and quite rightly so. I believe Derek Draper should now follow him too. He is not a paid official or even employed by the Labour Party and was just a voluntary adviser on new media. But I'm sure that that the General Secretary will and should make clear that such advice is totally unacceptable and not wanted.

"We've shown in the last few months that Labour can have a coherent voice on the internet with many left-wing bloggers putting the case and building campaigns, like our successful one against bankers bonuses. But this should not be done at the expense of integrity or decency, which were clearly breached in this matter."
I think that means "bugger off Derek" but I may be wrong.

4 comments:

kinglear said...

Imagine Prescott emerging as a decent enough bloke. Shows how low Brown et al have sunk...

not an economist said...

think that means "bugger off Derek" but I may be wrong.

More like "Nice idea Del-boy - heaven knows those bastard Tories deserve all they get. But unfortunately you got caught. So bugger off you incompetent prick".

But I may be wrong.

Alfred T Mahan said...

Why does hypocrisy smell so vile?

Anonymous said...

Just for the record:There are manyin the Labour Party who,over the past year,have tried to expose the'culture of smear'in the Party's south-east office...

Time for Powers to make a clean breast of things we think...[yes we know Powers has been on the recieving end of some unpleasantness himself..'three nipples'but we are not sympathetic:goose and ganders,hoists and petards..come to mind..